Stored Cross-Site Scripting in BuddyForms Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12038

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form For User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms For User Submissions (ugc)
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 February 2025

What is CVE-2024-12038?

The BuddyForms plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within its 'buddyforms_nav' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.8.15 and allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts. These scripts execute when users access the compromised pages, potentially leading to severe security risks such as session hijacking and data theft.

Affected Version(s)

Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) * <= 2.8.15

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3244167/budd...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Max Boll
.